commissioner matsuda, you were recused. and on september 20, 2017, without hearing continued, to december 6 and then continued again to this date. >> motion to recuse commissioner matsuda, because she livers too close? >> commissioner johnck: yes. >> commissioner matsuda: yes. >> commissioner hyland: yes. >> commissioner wolfram: yes. >> commissioner johns: yes. >> so proved. matter passes unanimously. >> good afternoon, commissioners. can i please have the power point. my name is desiree smith. the item before you is to recommend to the supervisors, 1610 geary boulevard in japan town. should the peace pagoda be second, it would be the first landmark designated for its association with japanese or japanese-american history. it would be the first designated for its association with the development of san francisco's historic japantown, one of only three remaining japantowns in the united states. at your december 6 hearing following public comment, discussion and deliberation, you adopted a motion of intent to recommend dis a

on december 5, staff attended with commissioner matsuda, a branding committee. and we'll work back on that in the next couple of months. i think it's planned to conclude in april. so we should have some products from that to share with you. and then on december 15, planning department staff attended a kickoff meeting with the lgbtq strategy working group and it will develop the development strategy. the next section is the cultural heritage district designations and strategies. the only recent designation is the san francisco leather cultural district. it was proposed in september, 2017. supervisors kim and sheehy announced the draft legislation and meetings are being held by the working group and they also have a website, where you can sign their legislation, map of their district and inventory of their cultural heritage assets and i will make closer contact with the working group and may have more information to share with you either when the cultural heritage assets meetings or the next quarterly report. next are historic preservations from committee projects

that moeths to adopt -- >> commissioner johnck: yes. >> commissioner johns: yes. >> commissioner matsuda: yes. >> commissioner pearlman: yes. >> commissioner hyland: yes. >> commissioner wolfram: yes. >> so proved. that is approved 6-0. that was our last item for the year. we'll close in honor of former mayor ed lee. we're all here on this commission because of mayor lee. we honor and remember his service and years of public service. so closing in his honor today. it. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their shop & dine in the 49 within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services in the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so we're will you shop & dine in the 49 chinatown has to be one the best unique shopping areas in san francisco that is color fulfill and safe each vegetation and seafood and find everything in chinatown the walk shop in chinatown welcome to jason dessert i'm the fifth generation of candy in san francisco still that serves 2000 district in the chinatown in the past it

. >> commissioner matsuda. >> i'm interested in making sure we get this right and i thoroughly agree with the staff recommendation and the social welfare programmes and because this particular place, so many very positive things have happened within various communities and i don't see that clearly reflected. i don't think it would be that hard to collect data and even to bullet point all the various xhunltzs that have benefited from this building being there. i was a recipient of being a beneficiary of using their gym when i was in law school. i know that there are many communities, specific communities that have specific place to help them heal and help them empower themselves and move on to expand to other bigger and better things. the social welfare, the social history of this is clearly missing and it is really important, particularly until today's world. >> those programmes were offered at the y, this is at the central branch, but if the focus was more on education, then it should -- the social history, social welfare programmes should be expanded. but if they're greater prament

. >> commissioner matsuda? >> commissioner matsuda: that's a really good idea to help desiree and shelley out in the future. i was going to mention the methodology for intangible resources, that would be such a hot topic for the national trust and so when and -- when that's available to make those suggestive classes or discussions, i would like to see that as well as legacy businesses. and, actually -- well, the commission gets excited about hearing from legacy businesses, so if they could be a part of a discussion at the trust, i think that would encourage other communities, where there are a lot of small and medium businesses to think of similar legislation, so we can spread the word. thank you very much. >> commissioner pearlman? >> commissioner pearlman: thank you. i think the idea of the tracking is really significant, one, to see if there's growth. the other is just to see how it plays out. i mean, you've got these as place holders now and you are going to find that one area will be much more -- need much